You can’t have robot overlords without the capitalist hellscape in which they are forged. We could probably pull it off with a lot less harm to the environment or whatever, but we didn’t. It was cheaper to fuck everything up instead of doing difficult things like waste management or environmental impact studies, so we’ve just done that since forever up to and including the present day. I think the ancients had it right. Don’t fear God, don’t fear death, what is good is easy to get, and what is terrible is easy to endure. Either we figure out the machine gods or the planet kills us first and the next meat bags get a chance.
Don’t knock robot overlords till you try them. I once had a supervisor replaced with an excel script and it was the best boss I’d ever had.